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the network will feature original series such as Meet a Scientologist, Voices for Humanity and L. Ron Hubbard: In His Own Voice. It will also offer a selection of “Scientology Principles” films, which explain “Basic Scientology Technology.”

I did not go and resigned employment there before I was supposed to go to camp. A childhood friend that worked there went to the camp, and it hosed his mind up. Imagine a big, lovely cult indoctrination layer cake with a frosting of sales/marketing advice. Now imagine you are eating that cake for four days straight a la treehouse of horror where Homer eats donuts in hell all day.

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Have any of you ever actually met a Scientologist in real life? I mean actually met them and spoke to them socially, not just been handed a pamphlet on the street etc.

What are they like? Are they as nutty as I would expect them to be? Are they as glass eyed and vacant as they seem on TV? Did they try and recruit you into their cult? (remember I am asking about meeting a Scientologist, not just being accosted on the street with a Dianetics book.)

i took their poersonality quiz (fake answers) at their office across from the vancouver film school they were salty i didnt want to buy anything. when i told them i didn't have my wallet they offered to drive me to my hotel to grab it (WTF).

i told them i'd be back another day and asked to use the bathroom, upper decked the toilet, then booked it

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

i took their poersonality quiz (fake answers) at their office across from the vancouver film school they were salty i didnt want to buy anything. when i told them i didn't have my wallet they offered to drive me to my hotel to grab it (WTF).

i told them i'd be back another day and asked to use the bathroom, upper decked the toilet, then booked it

Will Tom Cruise have a TV series? I'd watch the gently caress out of that.

I've honestly started to suspect that Tom Cruise is just a sci-fi fanatic nerd to the point that he believes in space alien religions more than the religion making him go crazy. I'm kind of OK with that.

lol very true. This was even more extra. They would encourage you to raise your prices 50% across the board. Why? "Higher prices give an air of exclusivity and quality." This is without changing the quality of your product, or offering any extra services. Keep in mind this course cost thousands of dollars for the owner and then several thousand per employee. You get a referral discount for sending more people/employees to them. You can use these discounts on additional specialized training through them, which in turn would cost even more money.

They also encouraged staying within their umbrella of "known" companies (companies that had paid for Scientology training or were actively ran and staffed by Scientologists) who would turn around and gouge you the same way you gouged your customers. Want a website redo? That 1000 dollar rework just went up to 3000 because you both attended the same hosed up cult indoctrination.

There's also internal documents that will disclose to a business owner if a similar business has already undergone the program. In my case, this meant that we would send work to a different shop across town when we were at capacity and they would do the same. Pretty much an informal noncompetition and price fixing scheme, but I'll leave that for lawyers to argue about.

If you want to dive down the google rabbit hole on this poo poo, google Management Success complaints. You can play the fun game of spotting the shills/Scientologists giving rebuttal. Bonus points if you find out the gigantic umbrella of companies Scientology has doing this same thing for dozens of industries. There's levels to this poo poo, man.

I wish i had a copy of their Weekly Sales Improvement Planning Sheet. Its the dumbest poo poo ever

I've seen some leaked Scientology material and Hubbard is the gooniest motherfucker. The way he speaks is hilarious.

This is so loving true! My favorite is his use of the words "technology" and "ethics". The dumb motherfucker threw those around like he had just read them in the dictionary that day and wanted everyone to know he knew those words, despite having to make up his own definitions for them to match his ridiculous usage of them. Also the dude on camera is seriously like some goon talking during a goonmeet video or some poo poo.

If you want to spot a Scientologist out in the field, pay attention to how they use the terms ethics and technology. If they are using some wackadoo definition for either watch the gently caress out.

My dad told me this story last year:
Just after I was born, one of my dad's college buddies randomly turned up at our house. He had a motorcycle with a couple of huge saddlebags tied to it and a backpack, and that was it. He hung out for two days, and left in the early, early morning of the third. At noon on the third day, two FBI agents arrived at our house and one detained my parents and I (like, I was literally 5 months old so I don't remember any of this poo poo) in the kitchen, and the other one ransacked our house. They asked my parents about the guy who was staying with us, and repeatedly asked about a large video tape. In the mid seventies, this was uncommon, and my parents swore up and down they never saw anything like that. The FBI agents left, but my dad swears up and down that he saw one of the guys a few days later at the grocery store.

Ten years passed. My parents split up, and my dad moved out of state. He reconnected with several of his college buddies, and they had an informal reunion. The guy who stayed with us those three days showed up, and dad got pissy with him about the FBI visit. The guy explained he had been involved with the Church of Scientology, and he and a few other members had broken into a Federal building to steal records, and this guy had bee given a video camera (the really big ones you see on-location news guys using) to film the break-in. They were discovered, and all but two of the Scientologists involved were caught. This guy got away, but he had to ditch the camera, but he kept the tape. He went on the run, hung out at our place for three days with the tape hidden under the mattress of my crib, then left. He made his way north, but got nabbed just outside of Canada, and turned State's evidence to get a really light sentence.

My dad thought that this guy was making poo poo up this whole time, until I explained that the events he was describing were almost certainly part of Operation Snow White, where Scientologists tried to steal their own Federal files for the church's suspicious activities. My dad still doesn't believe any of it.

Anyway, that's my Scientology story. I think they're all either duped or scum, depending on how high up they are.